perfect for some of my programs, but a disaster for others, especially non-complicated dos games like chess galaxians, pong, QuickMenu III. I would say the INTEL graphics show much more standard compatibility with a very wide range of legacy \DOS softwares NVIDIA is. It is CERTAIN FACT the DOS DPMI-16 BORLAND BGI business program sending VESA video mode requests through INT 10h BIOS calls, NOT directly through the hardware. And the most important (for me, anyways) that business graphics program, it is 100% perfect on the NVIDIA and I know it supports VESA 104h, but on the INTEL, no way at all as far as this needed program goes. (among others)Īs a demonstration: I could put the two laptops side-by-side running the exact same DOS softwares, and the INTEL video shows the screen properly and the NVIDIA screen is messed up in unique ways - usually I experience a kind of horizontal stretching effect and mis-alignment of screen objects' borders, especially the right-side border, but can can be both sides just as easily. ![]() After some thought, I feel that newer video designs have lost some of the things which older video cards still had, support for VESA MODES 104/106h and FONT support for 8x14 fonts. WITHOUT EVER bumping into the video issues I am now facing. Historically, I've used LEGACY video PCI cards such as CIRRUS GD5446/40, TRIDENT, S3, S3 ViRGE, BUT NOT S3 TRI064! with my AMD K6-2+/500 and DFI K6BV3+/66 Super-7 motherboard and DOS710. So, what can I do? I have been thinking about a very simple VESA TSR for DOS (the ENTIRE issue is for a DOS business program). MY PROBLEM is a DESPERATE need for VESA mode 104h - the NVIDIA 512Mb video has support for mode 104h, BUT INTEL, AMD//ATI do not. ![]() I have two laptop machines currently, Toshiba A500 (NVIDIA GeForce 310M, recognized in \\\\dos as a GT218 card) and a Gateway NV5915h (Intel HM55 chipset, Intel graphics, not sure precise chip ID, possible "Cantiga" - 128Mb ) I saw you had a very good video bios flashing web page and so I thought perhaps here is a good place I can ask a video graphics related question. Hi Everyone! I'm NEW here at techpowerup.
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